I don’t really have anyone else to shout at about this, but it’s an amazing way to host services in rootless containers entirely in user space using systemd (systemctl --user).
https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html
I like them very much as well, only thing I’m annoyed about is that you always need to drag that
--useroption… I mean, if I’m not using root or sudo, shouldn’t it be clear that I’m talking about the user space?Agreed! That would be a huge QoL improvement (and work just like the podman command does). Now I’m thinking about other commands that force this silliness, like
pip.I’ll probably just make an alias
Nice, did the same for some services I run at home. Now in the process of migrating my stuff on my vps from docker compose to quadlets. It’s a bit more involved but worth the QoL stuff quadlets bring with them, like automatic updates and systemd integration. I’m curious, which is your Linux distro of choice to run your podman quadlets on?
I’m now running quadlets on Garuda (my gaming/devbox), and Fedora. The impetus for this was needing to host service in an unprivileged way at work on RHEL9, so I got paid to do some learning with my own services.
My laptop is running Bazzite, but no services there. I’ll move the server to silverblue or another image based distro when I finish extracting the rest of my misadventures to containers.
hell yeah! i moved my whole setup from docker to podman with systemd with quadlets. auto updates and everything. so smooth.